Given a Unicode string and these requirements: The string be encoded into some byte-sequence format (e.g. UTF-8 or JSON unicode escape) The encoded string has a maximum length For example, the iPhone push service requires JSON encoding with a maximum total packet size of 256 bytes. What is the best way to truncate the string so that it re-encodes to
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Format floats with standard json module
I am using the standard json module in python 2.6 to serialize a list of floats. However, I’m getting results like this: I want the floats to be formated with only two decimal digits. The output should look like this: I have tried defining my own JSON Encoder class: This works for a sole float object: But fails for nested
How to get string objects instead of Unicode from JSON
I’m using Python 2 to parse JSON from ASCII encoded text files. When loading these files with either json or simplejson, all my string values are cast to Unicode objects instead of string objects. The problem is, I have to use the data with some libraries that only accept string objects. I can’t change the libraries nor update them. Is